Oh!
GRIN
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Oh!
GRIN
A free short story for you or your nook, by Kat Howard and this Fran Wilde person... "A Recipe For Magic": [link]
Lovely.
Very lovely! (grumbles: taut, not taught)
Heh. Yeah, I stifled that same grumble.
Oh, my. It's beautiful.
(psst I love you all and your grumbles)
For the next 6 and a half days, Zulily is having a Buy One, Give One event for Random House books, under $9.99. If you've got kids to buy gifts for, check it out!
I used to have a Barnes and Noble membership, when they had a store a couple of blocks from my office. The store closed (as so many are) and I dropped the membership ... for one thing, when I tried to order online, they refused to take my credit card - said that the address I had registered didn't match the billing address for my card.
Years pass and - since it takes about 45 minutes to get to an actual store and I do stop in about once a month - I got a new membership. Today I decided to try to order something online ... which was the single most frustrating experience I've had for a long time. I had to reopen the account (which was automatically set up when I got my previous membership), reset the passsword and log in ... and never got it to recognize the membership. I tried to contact them by email ... but never got past the sign in page - signed in repeatedly and it kept staying on the sign in page.
Called customer service and, after hearing a repeated message that they didn't show any orders coming from the phone I was using and a long-ish wait, got to an actual human ... who seemed to only say that the website was fine, the system was fine, so what was my problem.
Maddening.
I gave up my B&N membership for good when they charged me three times in one year for the membership fee. Getting it refunded over and over was too much effort.